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Apr.16.2013
What's In a Name? A Vietnamese...
by Andrew Q Lam
Vân, Cúc, Trúc, and Trang; Dũng, Dai, Khôi and Phát. In my mother tongue these names carry music, cadence, poetry. They evoke...
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May.19.2013
The Backstory as Defence Lawyer
by Katherine Gregor
In a recent post on The Red Room, Orna B. Raz makes a very interesting case for the fiction writer’s ability to...
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May.22.2013
I hate it when I don't blog
by Mary Wilkinson
I hate it when I don't blog. My brain gets clogged up with ideas and thoughts and irrational behaviour sets in. I start ranting...
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May.01.2013
"Love": A beautiful poem by...
by orna B Raz
I was surprised to see in the English version of "Love" that the young poet (she was 23 when her first book The Love of...
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May.16.2013
Rental Property
by Barbara Froman
My late father-in-law built a birdhouse for our yard. It was a simple thing—a box, painted dark brown, with a peaked roof, a...
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May.09.2013
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
by Steven Robert Travers
What’s in a name? I began thinking of my name – Travers – because on Thursday, May 24, the Examiner ran a piece, written by Dave...
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May.16.2013
Southernisms again...or more sayin's...
by Susan Hubbs
Southernisms.  I am sure there are Northernisms but I was born and bred in the South and have no idea what those would be....
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May.22.2013
Was the Woolwich murder a terror attack?
by Farzana Versey
They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the...
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May.20.2013
What I Learned From My Husband about Being...
by Bernadette Moyer
What I Learned From My Husband about Being a Good Man, a Great Husband and An Awesome Father By Bernadette A. Moyer What I...
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May.19.2013
Overcoming Negative Thinking
by Margie McKinnon
“The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”  While bedridden with...
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May.17.2013
Final report: Receiving the Grant
by Wendy Brown-Baez
The 2012 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant enabled me to bring writing workshops into twelve non-profit...
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May.14.2013
Whine Merchants: Privilege, Inequality and...
by Tim Wise
But what about us? It’s a question of which white folks seem never to tire when discussing subjects like affirmative action...
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May.11.2013
I Want My Mother Back.
by Lisa Solod
I want my mean, bitchy, drunk mother back. The mother who was depressed and melancholy, who said cruel things about my work and...
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Apr.26.2013
Exploring the World? Why? Why Not?
by Bruce Douglas Reeves
          Why, people ask, do I wander the world?  Why do my wife and I spend...
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May.09.2013
The Children’s Hour
by Anne Born
My mother did not like Mother’s Day.  All I can remember was her calling it a Hallmark Holiday.  She said it was just a...
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Mar.18.2013
Caroline Leavitt, Best-selling Author, On...
by David Henry Sterry
We first met Caroline Leavitt at the Miami Book Festival. If you ever have the chance to go to the Miami Book Festival, do...
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May.19.2013
Madre
by Luke James
Except for the peerless blue of the sky the world is black and white. The sun blasts all color from the streets ricocheting it up...
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Apr.30.2013
Remembering May Day
by Patricia Lantz
I remember May Day fun, all of us kids smiling and laughing, holding onto ribbons, dancing around a decorated pole, going over...
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May.02.2013
Lullaby and Good-Bye
by JM Cornwell
I knew it would not be easy; nothing ever is. But there was a moment, a single moment, when fear overwhelmed me. What was I about...
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May.12.2013
STYLE as Substance (Part One)
by Christopher Meeks
Why is it that some books have you eagerly turning the pages after your bedtime and other books work like sleeping pills? Partly...
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Apr.30.2013
My Eleven Commandments: aka The Searcher...
by Jill Jepson
I have been a nearly lifelong doubter. Not a nonbeliever, but not a believer, either. I’ve dipped my toes into more faiths than I...
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May.08.2013
A Different Kind of Warm
by Evan Pullins
I stare into his eyes, icy covered blues with white lines. Bruises under his eyes and short blonde hair, standing on a stained...
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Apr.28.2013
Just Chill
by Eva Schlesinger
In what was a culinary first for pastry chefs everywhere, Baking Expert Chef E has done it again. Chef E, who trained at the...
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May.14.2013
Getting to the Finish Line Before Retiring
by Louise B Nayer
Over the past few months, five people I have known have died---two were in their eighties but two were in their sixties(my decade...
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May.23.2013
A DICKENS OF AN EVENING...
by Manny Pacheco
Laurie and I enjoyed a super evening at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, one of the Burbs of Chicago. A production of...
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May.23.2013
GRAMMAR AGAIN
by charles killeen
The Return of the Noodge: I've never wanted to be a noodge but the state of grammar in this country is driving me more and more...
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May.13.2013
The Soul of Juan de Pareja
by Terence Clarke
The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velázquez that hangs in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is surrounded...
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Sep.12.2012
Sell Your eBook on Red Room
by Red Room Parlor Tricks
If you’re an author, traditionally or self-published, you can now sell your eBooks on Red Room! Plus, if you’re a Premium Member...
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May.18.2013
Two Characters Walk Into a Room
by Jane Wilson
Two of my favorite characters are Miss Spinster and Judge I.M. Oldenbald. I like them because they wear the same clothes much of...
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May.22.2013
I hate it when I don't blog
by Mary Wilkinson
I hate it when I don't blog. My brain gets clogged up with ideas and thoughts and irrational behaviour sets in. I start ranting...
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May.21.2013
Streaming sun in bountiful knowledge
by moni schott
I’m lucky. I feel lucky today, with sun streaming to one side of me, radiating onto my hand as it meanders across this page, and...
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May.23.2013
Past Present Imagery
by Nicholas Mackey
I have attached a copy of the original b/w photo used for 'Past Present' which inspired this work and then a mock-up of the final...
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Oct.23.2008
When I Was A Kid, They Told Me I'd...
by David Niall Wilson
She pulled back the curtains and glanced into the backyard. He was out there again. All she could see was his dirty jeans and one...
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Aug.23.2008
The Grind, or "Douce Campagna"
by DeLana R.A. Dameron
I spent this summer between two residencies and traveling. I spent this summer writing and writing. At what I thought was the end...
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Sep.12.2008
Mindful Movements Made Easy
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has developed exercises called Mindful Movements. These simple,...
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Jan.29.2009
'Have Drank' or 'Have Drunk...
by June Casagrande
From my January 27 column on tips for using the dictionary: Is it “I have drunk my coffee” or “I have drank my coffee”? Do you...
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